ON THE MILITARY QUESTION *.
13. III. 1921

Trotsky:
"To forgive," 
forgiven 
unforgiven...
through the apparatus of the Central Committee they did not do...
(Kamenev 
allegedly 
stated the opposite)...
Pre[siding] (Gra[zhevsky]: "the tongue will not turn."
Not topical [the] q[uestion] about prof[essional] u[nion]s
...where are Lenin's guarantees th[at] there will be no disagreement...
there will be continuity;
believe me,
c[omrade]s!
"The
majority of you feels the necessity of introducing oppositio[n]
to the Central Committee...but you do not know the measures...

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*Three sessions of the Tenth Congress of the RCP, morning sessions of March 12 and 13 and the 
evening session of March 12, devoted to the military question, were closed. Stenographic records 
and protocols were not kept. Notes submitted during the sessions have not been found.
The only document preserved in the Institute's archive is the notes printed below by Lenin, 
dated March 13, 1921. The notes were made on the reverse side of a note submitted to Lenin 
by a delegate to the Tenth Congress from the Kharkov organization, Smirnov, and pertain to 
the discussion of Trotsky's report on the military question. It was not possible to establish 
the context due to the complete absence of documents [on the subject].

According to the recollections of congress participants, the discussion that unfolded during 
the sessions devoted to the military question concerned all the urgent questions of party 
policy and its internal organization.